President-elect Donald Trump just appointed an EPA chief who has experience taking on legal battles with the agency over Obama’s climate change policies. Announced yesterday, Trump’s appointee as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency is Oklahoma Attorney General Scott P...

If you work on a farm and want a zero-emission vehicle to haul a few bales of hay, tote some produce, implements, or even small livestock (properly secured, of course), the Chevy Bolt EV may be for you. Or, if you are not up for that, you might still want to investigate joining your s...

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UK technology firm Augmented Optics has revealed a new supercapacitor material it says can charge a battery-electric vehicle as quickly as refueling a conventional car while threatening to render lithium-ion batteries obsolete. The new material is a polymer based on soft contact-lens ...

Plug-in electrified vehicle sales will skyrocket in the next quarter century, according to a new study by IHS Markit. The global consulting and analytics firm predicts PEVs will make up 15-to-35 percent of global new vehicle sales by 2040. While these vehicles only make for one percen...

While some alternative energy cars have been criticized for costing inordinately more than conventional cars, a number of hybrid cars cannot be so easily pigeonholed. No, there are actually seven U.S. models that stand to pay their owners back in under three years for the price premiu...

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American agricultural machinery manufacturer John Deere showcased its new prototype battery-electric farm tractor ahead of next month’s French SIMA show (Paris International Agri Business Show). While the company has shown a variety of alternative-fuel sources in the past, including a...

A report recently released from oil industry consultant Wood Mackenzie predicts that a boom in electric vehicles could reduce global gasoline demand by as much as 10 percent by 2035. While battery-electric cars and trucks today represent less than one percent of total global vehicle s...

Mercedes-Benz is rapidly electrifying its model lineup as evidenced by the next-generation A-Class and B-Class versions being offered with gasoline-electric plug-in hybrid powertrains. Due up first is the subcompact A-Class (example pictured above), which spy photographers have caught...